Stabroek Weekend

Today I wanted to share with you the pictures I have been promising, from Meiling’s most recent collection Night Women.

  Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj   Caledonia on the East Bank Demerara is a village that is sparsely populated by people, but home to a variety of fauna living in its areas of untouched vegetation, but also in captivity at Tropical Flora and Fauna Inc, which exports birds, mammals and reptiles.

I grew up in West Demerara when, unless you owned a boat, the only way to cross the Demerara River was the various government ferryboats operating between Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop.

Important structure One of the most important structures in international affairs is the finance structure.

The two preceding columns have presented, firstly, the case made by analysts who believe that, despite its limitations, the GDP remains the most appropriate indicator of economic size, rate of progress and level of welfare or well-being enjoyed by Guyanese.

Nothing can compare with the beauty and warmth of life at home.

It was disclosed during last week (‘Bar Association writes Registrar of Court, Commissioner of Police on touting’ SN, December 2) that the Guyana Bar Association had written to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and the Commissioner of Police seeking action against the use of touts to procure legal business for lawyers.

You know it’s Christmas time when Poinsettias begin to appear everywhere you look, along with Christmas trees.

Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Stephanie Correia’s painting, Kabakaburi Music in this their ninth Conversation on Guyanese art.

Stress is the one thing one wants to avoid when entertaining.

Gingivitis Last week, it was promised that we would continue our discussion on Gingivitis (Sore gums), specifically with the treatment of this ailment.

The United States has imposed sanctions against President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and former Russian regional governor Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, owing to his alleged assistance to the government of Syria.

The performances in the National Drama Festival (NDF) 2015 came to a rollicking, hilarious end with the performance of a comic farce – popular theatre of a type that appeals to the contemporary audience.

Hi Everyone, This week I am delivering on a promise I made a couple of weeks ago – to share with you a recipe for a pudding using passion fruit.

I love Sandra Granger’s style! And I honestly thought that with her rocking all those sleeveless dresses as First Lady, we would have seen a shift in the archaic rules we still have in Guyana when it comes to dress codes in a majority of public offices.

In the village of Versailles on the West Bank Demerara, Martley Mc Rae and his employees were hard at work in his block-making factory.

One of the shocks for people new to Guyana is the frenetic driving behaviours on our roads – drivers cutting in and out of traffic; driving in the opposing lane to get ahead of traffic; obviously intoxicated drivers; ignoring stop signs; running red lights – the list goes on.

Introduction Last week’s column responded to the question: Is Guyana’s GDP an appropriate measure of its economic size, progress or well-being?

Air China has confirmed that it will inaugurate a Beijing to Havana air service on December 27.